While the nitworks and cable news channels keep yammering about what someone will say or what they meant when they said it, the speeches and other events proceed. Two speeches Wednesday evening that didn’t get much coverage but deserve your attention were Major Tammy Duckworth and Senator John Kerry.
No, really, that John Kerry.
The highlight of the evening for this 10-year vet of parochial schools was the benediction when Sister Catherine Pinkerton came out, started to begin, then without a word, just stared at the delegates and crowd until they became quiet. Then Sister began her fine prayer. I’ve been on the receiving end of that stare a million times.
Thursday, Olympic gold medalist gymnast Shawn Johnson will lead the Pledge of Allegiance and Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson will sing the National Anthem. You can see it all on C-SPAN, no ads, no commentary, no interruptions.
Do you know what Sister Pinkerton said in her prayer? Thanks
Click on her name above to see the video. (Make require some add-on software.)
“It was the best speech John Kerry has given since his testimony to Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as a young Naval officer, just returned from Vietnam in 1971.”
Joe Klein, Time
“…no interruptions…”
With the exception of the fact that our Comcast service failed to record the event onto our DVR and then scrambled the stations (through said DVR, which is brand new, btw) so that channel 13 was actually playing channel 51 (sci-fi channel, which is a creepy thought)and we couldn’t get a danged thing to work correctly. I spent an hour on the phone with a supervisor and, once again, had Comcast come out to “fix” the problem.
I hate Comcast and am ready to switch to DirectTV… There was one thing I wanted to watch last night and it was CSPAN’s coverage of the DNC. I’ve watched most of it today on YouTube.
Bummer, man.
PS…I really liked the line from Clinton’s speech that was something to the effect of “… the world respected us more for the power of our example than the example of our power…”
Great line!